With: Andrew Kaufman, University of Virginia

With: Jeffrey McClurken, University of Mary Washington

Gone With the Wind, The Patriot, Born on the Fourth of July—some of America’s most important historical moments have been shown through film. While these movies often get the facts wrong, by watching them we can still learn something about the period when they were made.

With: Delores Phillips, Old Dominion University

Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, one Virginia scholar argues that on this anniversary, it’s time more people gave War and Peace a chance. Allison Quantz reports.